in the dirt since history began

Comment of the Week #3

This week’s I Miss Fafblog Comment of the Week, Spot! comes from another hold-over from the Actual Fafblog! commenting community, MarkC, who writes:

Cheney had been down this road before. He thought to himself, Karl got it right about history repeating itself: the first time as tragedy, the second time in Farsi.

We chortled. We sobbed uncontrollably. We felt vaguely like we’d heard something similar to this once before. We dismissed said feeling as the painful delusional effects of ice cream headache from our fruit smoothie.

Well played, MarkC!

Special thanks also to new linker Matilda’s Advice and Rants, and as always, Blue Gal, and somewhat surprisingly, my own self — for people other than me clicked the link from my other place this week — for the traffic we send our way.

AND: [Only tangentially related gratuitous blog promoting]:Blue Gal is hosting Carnival of the Liberals this time around. Submit your work now. If you have no work to submit, at least stop by and visit the Carnival on Wednesday.

"We have no words to waste on you. When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, we will show you what strength is. In roar of shell and shrapnel and in whine of machine-guns will our answer be couched. We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words—Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power."